The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-06-18
Published by Authority
AN ORDINANCE
Licensing and Regulating Passenger
Vehicles and Hotel Runners.


SECTION 1.-Be it ordained by the City Coup-
CT! Of Salt Lake City: That it snail be unlaw-
ful for any person, to run, keep CT use Tor
hire, for the carrying or conveying of per
sons, any public hackney coach, cab. omni
bus, express wagon, carriage, wagOnette or
any public passenger vehicle OF any de-
scr1ptlon or name whatsoever. using the
streets of Salt Lake City for trade or traffic.
without license first had and obtained so
to do.
SEC. 2. Applications for license under
this ordinance shall be made in writing to
the Mayor, and the amount hereinafter pro-
yided shall be paid in advance to the City
Treasurer. All licenses shall be issued and
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City
Recorder, under the seal o. the city The
Recorder shall keep an alphabetical list of
licenses issued, stating the lumber, name.
residence, amount paid, with such rem Arks
as may be deemed necess iry.
SEC. 3-UpOn application being made,
yearly licenses may be Issued thereon as
follows:
First Upon license to run an omni-
Lus ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $25 90
second-Upon a license to run a car
rage, express wagon, cab. coach,
hack or other passenger vehicle
drawn ny two OF more horses. -. 20 90
Third Upon a license to run
buggy, cab, express wagon or
QUIET N6ulCi6 u1dWu Uy one MORSE 10 w
Fourth.-UpOn license as hotel run
ner. ..-....-.--........... 5O W
SEC. 4.-The following localities are
hereby established as stands for pu olIc We
hicles:
First-On the west side of First East
Street, between South Temple and First
South Streets.
second.-On the north side of Second
South street two rods west of East Temple
Street.
Third.-On the west side of Third West
Street, twenty feet north of South Temple
Stree, and on the north side OF South en-
pie Street twenty feet west of Third West
Street
Fourth.-On First South Street one rod
east OF Fourth West Street.
Fifth On Fifth West Street two rods
south of Second south Street.
SiXth.-The centre of Second South Street
between East Temple and First East Streets
SEC. 5.-No person following the employ
ment of hackman, cabman, omnibus
driver, coach driver or driver OF any pas
senger vehicle shall, while actually engaged
in his employment as such at any railroad
depot, leave his hack, omnibus, coach or
express wagon, or other vehicle, but snail
remain within six feet of said coach, hack,
omnibus, express wagon, or other vehicle
while engaged in such employment at SUCH
railroad depot, exeeptit be TO secure, when
requested, the baggage of his passengers.
SEC. 6.-No runner, hickman, omnibus
driver, expressman, porter, cabman, or per-
son carrying passengers or soliciting for
passenger vehicles, shall induce or attempt to
induce any person to employ him to convey
such person, by either knowingly or wan
TONY misinforming or misleading such per-
son. as to the time or place of the arrival or
departure of any railroad train, or other
conveyance, or the location of any railroad
depot office, station or. ticket office, or the
location of any hotel, stage effiee, public
place, or private residence within said city,
nor shall he practice any decei', fraud or
misrepresentation in any manner whatever
relative to matters pertaining to his bust
ness
SEC. mo person followin9the employ
ment of runner, hackman, omnibus driver,
expressman, porter or driver of any pas
senger vehicle shall enter into or upon any
railroad car. or depot. or upon any passage
engaged in his employment as such ;
Provided, hOaOeber, That nothing herein shall
prevent the persons herein named from
entering in and upon any railroad car,
depot or passage leading thereto for the
purpose OF getting the baggage of any pas
senger arriving 81 or departing from the
city, after having first obtained and ex-
hibited to any policeman or person in
charge of such railroad car, depot, passage,
or landing, the check or checks of such
passenger for his baggage.
SEC S-No runner, hackman, omnibus
driver. expressman, porter. or driver of any
passenger vehicle shall, at any time or
place when waiting for or engaged in his
employment obstruct any street or side
walk, make any unusual noise or disturb
ance, unnecessarily snap or flourish his
whip, use any indecent. p-ofane or obsce1e
language, or be guilty of boisterous
or loud talking. or any disorderly
conduct, or use any language or
be guilty OF any conduct cal
culated to disturb the public peace or good
Or6Q nj
disturb any person there being or passing.
SEC. 9 1t shall not be lawful for any
licensed vehicle when not actually EN-
ployed, to be kept standing i'll any other
those designated and set apart as stands for
public vehicles
SEC. 10 1t shall not be lawful for any car
rage, hackney coach, cab, or any other
passenger vehicle to be driven through any
of the streets of Salt Lake City, at q greater
rate of speed than six miles an hour, nor
around the corner of any of the streets CT
said city at q gait that will endanger pc
destrians, and all vehicles, when passing
through or along any of the streets OF said
city shall, when meeting other vehicles, be
driven to the right hand side OF the way so
that said vehicles shall / ass clear Of each
other
SEC 11.-All public passenger vehicles,
licensed under this ordinance, shall be
numbered with PLAIN figures painted thereon
which shall always be kept conspicuously
in view; said numbers shall be furnished by
the City Recorder attbe time OF issuing the
license every hotel run ner, while engaged
in his employment, shall wear an appro-
pirate badge with the name of the hotel re-
presented by him inscribed thereon.
SEC 12-Every public vehicle for convey
anee of passengers when driven or used in
the night time shall have fixed upon some
conspicuous part of the outside thereof two
lighted lamps with plain gloss sides, and
have the number Of such vehicle in plain
legible figures upon each Of the outer sides
of said lamps, in such a manner that the
same may be distinctly seen, and every such
vehicle which has a door or doors to the
same. shall have knob or handle upon the
inside of each door by which said door may
be easily opened from the inside thereof
SEC. 13.-The maximum prices or rates OF
fare to be asked or demanded by any owner
or driver of any vehicle for the carriage OF
passengers shall be as follows: